The Dick Blick NOligarchy Profile
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NOligarchy Score
85.2
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Ranked in
Crafts & Hobby Supplies
#2
Subsidiary of Dick Blick Holdings, Inc.
Dick Blick earns a NOligarchy Score of 85.16 out of 100 — placing it among the stronger performers in its federal industry classification and well above the sector average.
Current Pillar Scores
Dick Blick Holdings, Inc. (parent company) has no federal lobbying or PAC spending of its own — Political Access reflects this company's own filings only. Wealth Extraction and Playing by the Rules reflect this company directly.
Political Access
100.0
Wealth Extraction
46.2
Playing by the Rules
100.0
Score history — 23 quarters
Tier bands show where each quarter's score falls — no numeric y-axis needed. The dashed ring marks the year-over-year comparison point. Tap any quarter but the first to see its pillar breakdown.
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Political Access Grade: 100/100. No federal lobbying spend, no corporate Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions, and no executive campaign donations have been matched to Dick Blick or its parent company, Dick Blick Holdings, Inc., across the tracked sources.
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Wealth Extraction Grade: 46.16/100. Dick Blick is a privately held company and is not required to file public compensation disclosures. No stock buyback or dividend data has been matched. The grade reflects an industry-benchmark CEO pay estimate in the absence of any mandatory public filing that would allow fuller assessment.
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Playing by the Rules Grade: 100/100. No regulatory fines or enforcement penalties have been matched to Dick Blick across the tracked sources.
Dick Blick ranks 4th out of 22 among companies sharing its federal industry classification (Sporting goods, hobby, and musical instrument retailers). Its score of 85.16 sits well above the sector average of 68.6.
The Bottom Line: No Public-Record Data Has Been Matched Across the Tracked Sources
From Q3 2024 through Q2 2026 (8 quarters — the two-year tracking period), no lobbying filings, PAC activity, executive campaign donations, CEO pay disclosures, stock buybacks, regulatory fines, or public subsidies have been matched to Dick Blick across any source this project tracks. That absence may reflect a genuine absence of activity — or it may mean that matching records exist in public databases but have not yet been linked to this company. What it does not represent is a confirmed finding of compliance or spending in either direction.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage
No federal lobbying filings, corporate PAC spending, or executive campaign contributions have been matched to Dick Blick or its parent, Dick Blick Holdings, Inc., for Q3 2024 through Q2 2026. A search of the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) returns no filings, and no corporate PAC or executive donation records have been linked to this company through the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Whether that reflects a deliberate decision to stay out of federal influence channels or a gap in current record-matching, the public record as it stands today shows no federal political footprint.
EXHIBIT — THE RESERVED SEAT
$0 in lobbying · $0 in PAC money
Dick Blick filed no federal lobbying and ran no corporate PAC in this window — the reserved seat at the witness table sits empty.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage
Dick Blick is privately held and is not required to file proxy statements or annual compensation disclosures with any public regulator, so no CEO pay, stock buyback, or dividend records have been matched to it across the tracked sources.
The best available figure for executive compensation context comes from AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch industry benchmarks. Dick Blick’s CEO pay ratio is not publicly disclosed; the best available figure is 430:1, based on AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch industry benchmarks for comparable companies in this sector. That means a typical worker in this sector would need more than four centuries on the job to earn what a CEO at a peer company collects in a single year. No stock buyback or dividend data is recorded for Dick Blick, so no per-worker raise calculation is possible.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage
No regulatory fines, penalties, or enforcement actions have been matched to Dick Blick across the tracked sources for Q3 2024 through Q2 2026. As with the other sections of this profile, that reflects the current state of available public records — not a confirmed finding that no violations occurred or were levied. No public subsidy records have been matched either.